Unexpected Pawn Shop find...

[ricardopalamino]

I dropped by the local pawn shop today to see if they had anything I might be interested in . I have bought a few watched from them in the past and traded Seiko divers with the guy once .  I had traded a refurbished Seiko 6309-7290 diver for this scuzzy looking Seiko 6105-8110....pic from before and after I worked on it .....

 

 

Today The guy said he haven't brought in anything he thought I might be interested in . We were shooting the breeze and I showed him the Omega Speedmaster I was wearing when he says , "hang on , I have a watch in the back I have to tag and put on the shelf . "

Shut Up...he brings out this watch I had been looking at for a while on ebay , and as much as I like them they always seemed to be too overpriced and overvalued for me to pull the trigger . Now I had one in my hands . I asked what they were asking for it and he shows me the tag for $396.00 , but then says , "I'll let you have it for $200.00 ."

I'll take it says I.  A Junghans Max Bill design automatic Model #027/4700..

[ramrod]

that's it! i'm moving to hawaii!

all i can say is "holy crap!!" those are incredible finds! i have always liked the junghans max bill. very clean looking and the right size.

and the 6105....OMG. you just don't find them around like that. and to trade for a "lesser" seiko makes it really special. nice job, louis.

[noirrac1j]

Wooo! That's a nice  clean looking watch design...all dial with hardly any case showing. I've always liked that in a watch and it's not seen much these days. I don't really know what these are supposed to go for, but I'm guessing the price you paid is very good, yes? Wear it well.

 

JC

[ramrod]

1 minute ago, noirrac1j said:

...all dial with hardly any case showing. I've always liked that in a watch

 

JC

my words exactly. i have an old benrus auto that looks the same - tons of dial with almost no case. it's a great look.

[ricardopalamino]

Here's the spread in todays listings . Mine is similar to the new black one with the date . These do not include the chronographs....

[ramrod]

for me - i'd rather have the numbers on the dial (it reminds me of my elementary school clock). those two are a bit sp**BLEEP** in the design department.

[ricardopalamino]

Here's one for you ramrod buddy.....

[noirrac1j]

Numbers are better than plain ol' batons.

Sent from my SM-G925T using Tapatalk

[ramrod]

31 minutes ago, ricardopalamino said:

Here's one for you ramrod buddy.....

1 day 22 hours? hang on .....let me get my taxes done.

[WileyDave]

Never had much luck in pawnshops, they seem to know more about guns than watches and when they do have something worthy, it's usually way overpriced. Good find!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYlOIKtYsos

 

[ricardopalamino]

Thank You WileyDave . While the Seiko diver and the Max Bill are the best pawn shop finds for me to date , I recently took a trip to the mainland and picked up 3 other watches in pawn shops....

The Citizen Americas Cup watch I picked up in California . They were asking $120 with no battery and I offered the shop $75 and an exchange if I put a battery in and it didn't work . They agreed to that so I located a battery , Installed it , and all the functions worked . The watch is from 1992 and has the original watchband .

In Denver at another pawn shop I picked up this clean working Lord Elgin for $10 , and this clean Seiko 7T62 chronograph for $56 with the same exchange condition I had with the Citizen in California .

 

[jdm]

Good point about the condition of having the watch work on a new batter, It is worth to go around with a small set of batteries and a case opener then.

[diveboy]

On 10/04/2016 at 10:18 PM, ricardopalamino said:

 

centre watch is the Lord Elgin Cranbrook from 1954, originally sold for $71.50. I haven't seen any advertising with the diamonds on the dial,  so assume that is after market replacement.  great buy for $10.

Edited April 17, 2016 by diveboy

[ricardopalamino]

Thanks for that Info diveboy . I had been looking at quite a few Lord Elgins on the Net to see if I could spot something similar . It seems to be running strong .

 

Mahalo , Louis

Edited April 17, 2016 by ricardopalamino

[pgse14]

Great find man and for $200 you cant beat that good job lol

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G925A using Tapatalk

[ramrod]

I always said that Louis "could find a watch on the moon". 

[jdrichard]

China

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[WileyDave]

100MFTERS???, not poking fun, what kind of movement? Seagull?

[ro63rto]

100MFTERS???, not poking fun, what kind of movement? Seagull?

Bottom of the E fell off [emoji1]

Winner are pocket money watches. Great if you don't want to ruin a goos watch while doing house/yard work etc.

Same as Jaragar.

[WileyDave]

3 hours ago, ro63rto said:

Bottom of the E fell off

Winner are pocket money watches. Great if you don't want to ruin a goos watch while doing house/yard work etc.

Same as Jaragar.

Nice looker for a beater!

[ricardopalamino]

On April 21, 2016 at 2:15 PM, jdrichard said:

China

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Aloha JDRichard , did you pick this beauty up  at a pawn shop ?

[jdrichard]

Aloha JDRichard , did you pick this beauty up  at a pawn shop ?

On line